We're excited to welcome a new group member, Claire Senger! Claire will be working on nanobandage and microplastic project.

Reika was chosen to receive the NSF CAREER Award for the project entitled Understanding the Multi-Scale Dynamics of Heterogeneous...

Do you remember what it was that made you want to become an engineer? I think that was in high school back in Japan. I participated in a...

We congrats Autumn for passing ALL the cumulative exams! Autumn is very excited to distill her monomer💫

James (Co-advised with Todd Emrick) successfully passed his prospectus titled "Tuning Polymer-2D Materials Interactions for Designing...

In our group meetings, everyone, including Reika, except for the presenter, introduces an exciting paper that is published in the week (...

Walter successfully passed his prospectus titled "Understanding the Relationship Between Segment and Chain Dynamics in Heterogeneous...

We congrats Autumn for passing the cume, especially during such a difficult time. Yay!

Reika led a team effort for peer-mentoring, which has been funded by UMass ADVANCE Grant ($6,000/year)! Center for Evolutionary...

Amherst MA is very beautiful covered with snow! Yes, it's a bit chilly.... that's why we do science inside the Conte Building.... Here is...

Katsumata Group had a welcome lunch for a new Ph.D. student Autumn Mineo. Welcome, Autumn! Autumn will be working on stress-free nanoglue...

So excited to share that a new Ph.D. student, Evon Petek, has joined our group! Evon will be working on the wetting transparency project....

Reika Katsumata has been awarded an American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) Grant. The project...

Group outing after final presentations from Eddie and Tommy (summer undergraduate students)! #Sugarloaf Video credit to James 🙂

Y. Zhang, C.A. D’Ambra, R. Katsumata, R.L. Burns, M.H. Somervell, R.A. Segalman, C.J. Hawker, and Christopher M. Bates*, “Rapid and...

https://www.pse.umass.edu/news/james-pagaduan-ppg-fellowship James Pagaduan has been selected to PPG Foundation Fellow. Congrats, James!

Walter has been awarded to receive Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowship. Congrats!

E. Thomas, E. Davidson, R. Katsumata, R.A. Segalman*, and M. Chabinyc*, “Branched Side Chains Govern Counterion Position and Doping...

R. Katsumata, A.R. Dulaney, C.B. Kim, and C.J. Ellison*, “Glass transition and in-plane self-diffusion of unentangled polymer melt...

R. Katsumata, R. Limary, Y. Zhang, B.C. Popere, A.T. Heitsch, M. Li, P. Trefonas, and R.A. Segalman*, “Mussel-inspired strategy for...